Tag: geranium

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Fuzzy geranium buds.

I have this thing about certain words… some of them I can’t seem to remember time and time again.  But I remember what letter they begin with.  Weird.  Makes me think that the brain, or at least my brain, indexes information alphabetically.

Anyway.  The name of this flower is one that always escapes me.  But I know it begins with a “G.”   Google is a nice companion tool for my funky memory, i just searched on “flowers that begin with G.”  And there it was in the list with all the other G-flowers… Geranium.

This is one that has weathered the summer, and is putting out some more buds – they’ll be fire-red when they bloom.  These are likely the last of the season.

Jul 22, 2010

Red

Before buying my first house 12 years ago and having a yard and flower beds of my own, I didn’t really pay much attention to flowers, plants, grasses.  I didn’t know their names, and didn’t take the time to appreciate a really pretty and well tended garden.

Since then, I’ve really come to enjoy gardening, over the years planting many beds of my own, trying different plantings.  I’ve tried my hand at vegetable gardens as well, but they always seem to fall victim to the unbearable heat of our summers.  Native flowers and plants are much more fun to grow — they seem to thrive in this crazy weather.

A few years ago I discovered that geraniums do really well outside here and have planted several.   Unless there’s a really hard freeze, they make it through the winter just fine.

This is a shot of a geranium I planted in the bed this year — a pretty deep red.